Stove-lid handle or lifter.



J. F. RACZKOWSKI.

STOVE LID HANDLE OR LIFTER. APPLICATION FILED IAN. 20| I9I5.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

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JOHN F. RACZKOWSKI, OF PLYMOUTH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR- OF ONE-HALF TO ARTHUR GLIDDON, OF PLYMOUTH, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOVE-LID HANDLE OR LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Application filed January 20, 1915. Serial No. 3,249.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN F. Raozxowskr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plymouth, .in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Lid Handles or Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in stove lid handles or lifters.

rihe primary object of this invention is to provide a lifter for stove lids after the manner of a stove handle and adapted to engage the griddle or stove lid and be automatically retained thereon during the lifting operation.

A further object is to provide a lid lifter adapted for engaging in the lid socket when desired to lift the lid and having a locking means automatically engaging the lid when the latter is elevated by the device.

i still further object is to provide a serviceable device which is easy and inexpensive to manufacture and which at the same time possesses the requisite strength and is adapted for safely lifting and transferring stove lids and reducing the possibility of accidentally dropping the same.

lith these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof positioned in engagement with a stove lid, a latterportion of the A stove top being shown in vertical section. and Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, the device consists broadly of a handle 10 having an obtuse angular bend 11 at an inter-mediate point therein forming an end portion 12 opposite the hand grasping portion of the handle which terminates in an acute angular arm 13. A slightly curved foot 14 in the form of a strip of metal hai ing its forward edge 15 tapered is centrally secured adjacent its rear edge to the end of the arm 13 which latter is positioned to thereby extend substantially perpendicular to the foot.

The device is adapted to be grasped by means of the handle 10 and the foot 14e thrust forward into the tapered obliquely arranged socket 16 of the lid or griddle 17 of the stove 18 as illustrated in Fig. 2. The forward edge 15 of the foot will then engage beneath the lid 19 of the socket as shown in Fig. 2.

A locking yoke 2O substantially semicircular in form is provided with a longitudinal slot 21 for freely receiving the arm 13 therethrough, and the yoke is pivoted to such arm by means of a pivot pin 22 extending through the yoke at the opposite sides of the slot 21 thereof and also extending through the handle arm 13. The yoke has a downwardly projecting forwardly positioned tapered linger 23 having a reduced extremity 23 which forms shoulders in connection with the finger 28 and which approaches the foot edge 15 upon the pivotal movement of the yoke, but normally remains spaced thereover by means of the overbalancing of the yoke occasioned by the rearwardly extending tapered liange 241 at the rear edge of the yoke. AIt is to be noted that the reduced extremity 23 is adapted for engagement in the usual type of socket in stove lids so that the lifter may be used as is any ordinary lifter if desired. i

When the handle foot is applied to the lid socket as shown in Fig. 2 and with the yoke finger 23 positioned above the lid socket lip 19, a downward movement of the handle 10 engages the yoke flange 24 against the lid which thus forces the yoke finger toward the foot edge 15 and locks the lid lip 19 impinged between the said finger and foot. lVhen the device is elevated, the lid will remain so locked thereto, and the lid may be readily carried or transferred to wherever desired without the liability of accidentally dropping the same or a disengagement of the lifter from the lid taking place. It should be noted that the device is adaptable for stove lids having different forms of sockets such for instance as where opposite side lips are provided beneath which the foot engages, while the linger 23 will impinge the forward portion of the lid.

While the form of the invention herein shown and described is what is believed to be the preferred embodiment thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

What I claim as new is A lid lifter including a handle having'an acute angular bend at the outer end thereof, a forwardly projecting enlarged foot carriedV by thev angularly bent end, a looking yoke of inverted substantially U-form including spaced side members adapted to receive the angular end of the handle and be pivotally supported at the bent portion, and 15 forwardly and rearwardly pro]ecting lidengagi-ng portions carried by the yoke'meml 4ber adaptedto engage the lid on the opposite sides of the lid socket, the forwardly projecting lid engaging portion having a 20 JOHN Ff RAozKowsKr.

IVitnesses:

DAVID OPPENHEIM, ROBERT JAFFIE.

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